It’s time to end the carbon offset era, COP30 scientists & communities say (commentary)

Mongabay
Nov 21, 2025, 7:43 am110 ptsTrending
At COP30 in Belém, the first climate summit held in the Amazon, something rare has happened. For years, the risks and failures of carbon offsetting have been dismissed as activist exaggeration or technical teething problems. But this week, Brazil’s leading scientists publicly said what many Indigenous and…

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